A Few Takeaways From Last Night's [27 March 2017] GGL Event
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Sounds like the event served a purpose to give the impression BA are listening to their highly-prized customers. Shame that won't turn into anything meaningful.
The 5 hours' sleep is a masterstroke in PR. It means removal of a meal.
If AA pulled the JV with BA, then there'd be an investment in CW and sharpish.
The 5 hours' sleep is a masterstroke in PR. It means removal of a meal.
If AA pulled the JV with BA, then there'd be an investment in CW and sharpish.
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I find it bizzare, bordering on irresponsible, that a company the size of BA does not have a competitive intelligence team, with a budget to explore the offerings of competitors.
Or, maybe the competitive intellligence team have spent all their budget on flying Norwegian recently?
Or, maybe the competitive intellligence team have spent all their budget on flying Norwegian recently?
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Don't know... they used to be like buses for me ( 5 in 18 months) and now it's been as dry as a dry river bed for the last couple of years. Others may know the criteria for selection but I don't
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It beggars belief that they don't fly the competition. I am well paid enough to do so out of my own pocket and they will earn multiple times what I do. They are the senior management for Christ's sake. AC blathers on about ignoring HR policy, so surely they have licence to ignore expense policy to make a booking on another airline. Utterly inexcusable. It genuinely angers me that a group of well paid senior executives can be collectivity and individually so stupid.
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I find it bizzare, bordering on irresponsible, that a company the size of BA does not have a competitive intelligence team, with a budget to explore the offerings of competitors.
Or, maybe the competitive intellligence team have spent all their budget on flying Norwegian recently?
Or, maybe the competitive intellligence team have spent all their budget on flying Norwegian recently?
That a senior exec allegedly hasn't flown on competitors, accordingly solely to a blogger who may well be motivated by boosting traffic to his website, doesn't equate to BA not keeping track of competitors.
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Troy Warfield actually said to me at a previous event that he had intentionally been trying out other F and J product, since joining BA and that it was one of the fun parts of the job. So there is budget somewhere, at least at his level. But, agree that there should be some kind of competitor intelligence team.
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I've never been info, despite having an office about 2mins drive from Fortnums!
Anyone fancy bringing me as a +1?!
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Anyone fancy bringing me as a +1?!
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£100k is 100,000 Club Europe "short" meals! At the most conservative estimate 20,000 cartons of premium Sunpride.